Do you ever imagine you’re in one of those spy movies, the ones where your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to penetrate the secret lair of the bad guys, disable the bomb, save the girl, and evacuate the building tethered to a helicopter? Okay, maybe not all of those combined, but at least one scenario that demands that you remain on your toes and adapt to situations quickly with little room for error. If so, you know the little voice in your head, the one that comes through the earpiece from Ving Rhames who is watching your every move and guiding your movement through the crisis? Yep, that’s the one.

Focus on that, because that’s the pace of innovation. We all have to innovate, but sometimes the pace of technological advance can be overwhelming, and the systems put in place to manage the necessary innovations must be agile enough to respond to the ever-increasing pace of change. It’s like a hero’s journey with an unbelievable ending. But you can believe it, even if you can’t see Tom Cruise in the role.

Tom Brazil, our very own Chief Digital and Innovation Officer, has literally written the book on managing agile innovation systems. Implementing an Agile Innovation Management System draws from the work of Langdon Morris of Innovation Labs and explores the five key elements of the innovation management master plan—innovation strategy, portfolio, process, culture, and infrastructure, offering insights cultivated from more than 34 years of directing innovation teams and effecting positive digital change across a wide spectrum of industries, including DoD and Fortune 100 companies.

So call ICS about your innovation management strategies. After all, we wrote the book on it. Well, Tom did, but you get the point. Now get the book! This post will self-destruct in five seconds.